06-05-2021, 09:19 AM
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#281
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 161 St. - Yankee Stadium
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Originally Posted by Flamesfan05
Connor Brown for Matthew or Mangi for Brady?
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Mangi for Matthews.
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06-05-2021, 09:24 AM
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#282
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Yeah, there was very low expectations for this club this year and the way they started showed why.
AM got there and everyone slotted better, Kuemper actually started playing at a decent level, and away they went.
If they finish this thing off with the gold, it will be the most unlikely win in 60 years when a group of amateurs went and took it from what were the very best that Sweden, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and other iron curtain countries had to offer, led by the guy in my avatar.
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Hardly 
Canada still has the most NHL players, and no team has anything close to their best roster this year.
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06-05-2021, 09:34 AM
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#283
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Itse
Hardly
Canada still has the most NHL players, and no team has anything close to their best roster this year. |
Still. Good on Canada for grinding their way to the final.
Seems more satisfying than watching a full NHL squad beat Latvia 21-0.
Hopefully this builds on Mangiapane’s confidence level for next year. Really to bad Dube didn’t get to participate.
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06-05-2021, 09:35 AM
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#284
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Originally Posted by icarus
It's amazing that the USA hasn't won this annual tournament since 1960. That's some drought!
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If you want to get technical, the last and only gold in this particular tournament for USA was in 1933
The 1960 world championship was awarded to the winner of the Olympic tournament.
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06-05-2021, 09:36 AM
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#285
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Itse
If you want to get technical, the last and only gold in this particular tournament for USA was in 1933
The 1960 world championship was awarded to the winner of the Olympic tournament. |
Sounds like the leafs.
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06-05-2021, 09:37 AM
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#286
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Originally Posted by Itse
Hardly
Canada still has the most NHL players, and no team has anything close to their best roster this year. |
Im not sure how that equates to this being the most unlikely win if they get it.
This club was not expected to be in the finals.....period.
Russia, and the USA were the two most mentioned by the pundits and the round robin showed that in spades.
Canada doesn't lose to a Latvia or Germany, yet they did. 2 goals scored in their first 3 games.
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06-05-2021, 09:48 AM
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#287
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by transplant99
Im not sure how that equates to this being the most unlikely win if they get it.
This club was not expected to be in the finals.....period.
Russia, and the USA were the two most mentioned by the pundits and the round robin showed that in spades.
Canada doesn't lose to a Latvia or Germany, yet they did. 2 goals scored in their first 3 games.
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There's a huge difference between "not expected to make the final" and actually being considered an upset winner.
This year's tournament was a free-for-all, and Canada was very much one of the "all".
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06-05-2021, 09:48 AM
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#288
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by transplant99
Im not sure how that equates to this being the most unlikely win if they get it.
This club was not expected to be in the finals.....period.
Russia, and the USA were the two most mentioned by the pundits and the round robin showed that in spades.
Canada doesn't lose to a Latvia or Germany, yet they did. 2 goals scored in their first 3 games.
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This team could easily have not made the quarterfinals.
They progressively got better as the tourney went on. Cool to watch.
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06-05-2021, 11:16 AM
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#289
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
Player of the game (again).
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Hes going to have so many watches...
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06-05-2021, 11:28 AM
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#290
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Finland beats Germany and will face Canada in the final.
Replay of the 2019 final.
As a curiosity, Germany also has a primarily Finnish coaching staff, including the head coach, assistant coach and goalie coach. Don't think I've ever seen that.
Last edited by Itse; 06-05-2021 at 11:33 AM.
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06-05-2021, 12:04 PM
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#291
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Dallas
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Imagine if the flames have a guy that can score like Mangiapane
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06-05-2021, 01:31 PM
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#292
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
Hes going to have so many watches...
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Happy Father’s Day Mangiapane Sr.
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06-05-2021, 02:07 PM
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#293
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Calgary
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LOVE THIS KID!!!! 
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06-05-2021, 02:13 PM
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#294
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Originally Posted by midniteowl
LOVE THIS KID!!!!
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That actually looks just like him. Is this a live shot?
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06-05-2021, 02:13 PM
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#295
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Still feel bad for Dube. His game suits this tournament.
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06-05-2021, 02:18 PM
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#296
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Originally Posted by gvitaly
Those were games against Norway, Kazakhstan, and Italy. How many NHLers do they have between them?
If it will give him a huge boost, that's awesome. I think he is well aware of who he is playing against. If a Flame had a great game in an exhibition game with AHLers I would also take it with a grain of salt.
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Still killing it, even with the upgrade in competition.
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06-05-2021, 02:25 PM
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#297
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
That actually looks just like him. Is this a live shot?
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I don't think so, I just googled kid eat bread and this kid came up. 
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06-05-2021, 02:25 PM
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#298
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Lifetime Suspension
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Eaty my freaking Bready.
Still think he tops out at 50-60 points but he could replace some of what Sam Bennett gave us in the playoffs with the way he elevates.
His goal vs Avs in game one is still one of my favorite in recent memory.
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06-05-2021, 02:44 PM
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#299
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Haparanda
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Quote:
Originally Posted by transplant99
Yeah, there was very low expectations for this club this year and the way they started showed why.
AM got there and everyone slotted better, Kuemper actually started playing at a decent level, and away they went.
If they finish this thing off with the gold, it will be the most unlikely win in 60 years when a group of amateurs went and took it from what were the very best that Sweden, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and other iron curtain countries had to offer, led by the guy in my avatar.
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That's a stretch.
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06-05-2021, 03:24 PM
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#300
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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Still can’t get over the execution of the move by Stetcher in the QF OT.
The individual move isn’t new, pulled of in the NHL regularly and my beer league. But it’s usually more an unnecessary move and/or, doesn’t lead to much after the move.
In this case, it was pulled of perfectly, and the whole sequence played out because the move was executed to perfection; the fake from the shot froze the top guy, made the one defender fall to block it... and the momentum Stetcher had from putting it in his feet basically also allowed him to go wide and past the the down low defender who was a bit frozen from the fake shot...and the first defender who fell down for the fake got up and was watching the puck with Stetcher suddenly going wide, and drifted over there to leave Mangipane open on the far side. Stetcher continued the move after the initial fake with another shoulder fake and backhand pass across the crease.
All around a fantastic goal.
Last edited by browna; 06-05-2021 at 03:31 PM.
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